Modern Enterprise Architecture

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Modern Enterprise Architecture" provides a comprehensive guide to understanding and implementing enterprise architecture (EA) in large enterprises. The book emphasizes the importance of EA in driving business success through alignment with IT and digital strategies. It introduces key frameworks and methodologies that help in building robust, scalable, and adaptive architectures.

In this book, you will learn about the definition and importance of EA in modern businesses, including its historical context and evolution from the 1980s to the present. You will explore the role of EA in aligning business and IT strategies, ensuring that technological initiatives support overarching business goals.

The book covers key frameworks and methodologies essential for enterprise architects. These include the Zachman Framework, which provides a methodology for describing complex systems from multiple perspectives, and TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework), a comprehensive approach for designing, planning, implementing, and governing enterprise information architecture. Additionally, you will learn about IT4IT, a value stream-based framework that aligns IT architecture with business needs and focuses on delivering value through IT service management.

You will also delve into transforming to modern EA by adopting new thinking principles and leveraging modern techniques and tools to manage EA effectively. The book guides you in defining target architectures and operating models that support business goals, ensuring your architecture can adapt to changing business environments.

The role of EA in guiding digital transformation initiatives is another critical area covered. You will learn strategies for application portfolio management and controlling risks during transformation, supported by real-world examples of digital transformation guided by EA.

The book emphasizes agility and continuous improvement through concepts like floating architecture and continuous architecture. It explains how to implement DevSecOps principles for security and agility and underscores the importance of change management in maintaining agile and adaptive architectures.

Furthermore, you will explore strategies for scaling enterprise architecture to support business growth. This includes the importance of scenario planning and supply chain management in scaling efforts and transitioning to subscription-based business models, along with their architectural implications.

Finally, the evolving role of the architect is discussed, highlighting the shift from traditional architect roles to servant leadership. The book stresses the importance of establishing a culture of architectural excellence and engineering, as well as training and developing new talents to meet the future demands of enterprise architecture.

By understanding and applying the principles outlined in this book, you will be equipped to build and maintain an enterprise architecture that not only supports but drives business success in a rapidly changing digital landscape.